diff --git a/wrappers/kotlin/askarBindings/commonMain/kotlin/aries_askar/AskarEntry.kt b/wrappers/kotlin/askarBindings/commonMain/kotlin/aries_askar/AskarEntry.kt
index 994b35ab..ffd8010c 100644
--- a/wrappers/kotlin/askarBindings/commonMain/kotlin/aries_askar/AskarEntry.kt
+++ b/wrappers/kotlin/askarBindings/commonMain/kotlin/aries_askar/AskarEntry.kt
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ class AskarEntry(
                 UniFFILib.uniffi_aries_askar_fn_method_askarentry_tags(it, _status)
             }
         }.let {
+            for( i in 0 until it.dataSize) {
+            }
             FfiConverterMapStringString.lift(it)
         }
 
diff --git a/wrappers/kotlin/build.gradle.kts b/wrappers/kotlin/build.gradle.kts
index a9ec0f77..582914c7 100644
--- a/wrappers/kotlin/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/wrappers/kotlin/build.gradle.kts
@@ -137,9 +137,9 @@ kotlin {
     jvm{
         compilations.all{
             kotlinOptions.jvmTarget = "1.8"
-//            this.kotlinOptions {
-//                freeCompilerArgs += listOf("-Xdebug")
-//            }
+            this.kotlinOptions {
+                freeCompilerArgs += listOf("-Xdebug")
+            }
         }
         testRuns["test"].executionTask.configure{
             useJUnitPlatform()
diff --git a/wrappers/kotlin/src/commonTest/kotlin/AskarTest.kt b/wrappers/kotlin/src/commonTest/kotlin/AskarTest.kt
index f95e6992..f7cd998a 100644
--- a/wrappers/kotlin/src/commonTest/kotlin/AskarTest.kt
+++ b/wrappers/kotlin/src/commonTest/kotlin/AskarTest.kt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import askar.store.Store
 import askar.toUbyteList
 import kotlinx.coroutines.runBlocking
 import kotlinx.serialization.encodeToString
-import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
+import kotlinx.serialization.json.*
 import kotlin.test.*
 import kotlin.test.Test
 
@@ -242,7 +242,9 @@ class AskarTest {
                 tags = Json.encodeToString(firstEntry.tags)
             )
 
-            assertEquals(1, txn.count(firstEntry.category, Json.encodeToString(firstEntry.tags)))
+            val count = txn.count(firstEntry.category, Json.encodeToString(firstEntry.tags))
+
+            assertEquals(1, count)
 
             val ret = txn.fetch(firstEntry.category, firstEntry.name) ?: throw Error("should not happen")